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The Small State Alone: Jamaican Foreign Policy, 1977-1980

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Vaughan A. Lewis
Vaughan A. Lewis*
Affiliation:
Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States Castries, St. Lucia, Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, Jamaica
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This study is a sequel to one done by this writer on the foreign policy of Jamaica from 1972 to 1977 (Lewis, 1981) and covers the remaining period during which the People's National Party (PNP), led by Prime Minister Michael Manley, presided over the government of the country.

In elections held on October 30, 1980, the PNP government was decisively defeated by the opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP). The latter had, in the previous elections of December 15, 1976, retained only 13 seats in Jamaica's parliament. When the Jamaica Labour Party administration took office, as the party had promised in its election manifesto, it reversed the central planks of the domestic and foreign policies of the PNP administration and reestablished a close relationship with the United States as the main element of its domestic and foreign policies.

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Research Article
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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , May 1983 , pp. 139 - 169
Copyright
Copyright © University of Miami 1983

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